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Letters: New level of evidence for death penalty

Las Cruces Sun-News
Published 7:03 a.m. MT Jan. 21, 2018

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The execution chamber in Huntsville, Texas.
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BT CHANTAL VALERY (FILES)This February 29, 2000, photo shows the "death chamber" at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Electric chairs, gas chambers or firing squad: American states that retain the death penalty are mulling a return to long-abandoned execution methods as they grapple with a shortage of lethal injection drugs. A handful of officials in Virginia, Wyoming and Missouri are proposing to return to methods of execution from a bygone era, horrifying abolitionists who want to see the death penalty scrapped altogether. Since 1982, lethal injection has gradually become the execution method of choice across the 32 states that practice the death penalty. AFP PHOTO/Paul BUCKPAUL BUCK/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: US-DEATH ORIG FILE ID: 526645081(Photo: PAUL BUCK, AFP/Getty Images)